Stage Quotes · Page 110

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

— Sarah Vowell

In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.

— Carl De Keyzer

I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it…

— Rudolf Nureyev

Its just my goal to make other girls feel as strong as I feel when Im on that stage.

— Hayley Williams

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

— John Maynard Keynes

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad…

— William Shakespeare

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

— Busy Philipps

I feel like my consignment and fear from people pushed me to become a performer.

— Ezra Furman

When you're under pressure and you're getting hammered by the media, it is a burden. It's the opinions that get you, and…

— David James

I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the…

— Isabelle Eberhardt

Don't make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the business, don't bring…

— Jen Kirkman

The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create…

— August Wilson

From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain…

— Evander Holyfield

When you're in love with the work, the energy comes more naturally. You want to wake up in the morning to write…

— Matthew Hussey

I was creator and executive producer of 'The Brady Bunch' on TV. The stage version was done by others, but it was…

— Sherwood Schwartz

I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't…

— Ron White

I was just so nervous every time I was onstage. It took me many, many years to get to the point where…

— Dave Franco

All I can focus on right now is playing that record as best we can each night on stage, and that every…

— Cody Johnson

But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its…

— Aldo Leopold

Always consider the qualifications of anyone who assumes or professes authority, what do they really know? Authorities on spirituality can rarely give…

— Peter J. Carroll

Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through…

— Lee Hall

I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that…

— David Lee

“As a performing musician, Masha is especially concerned in helping those in the creative and sports arenas to reach their true potential.…

— mashasolodukha

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

— Isabelle Huppert

It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I…

— Cilla Black

I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

— Carrie Fisher

Robben is truly world class, proving himself at the highest level in England, Spain, Germany and on the international stage.

— Jamie Carragher

SHINee world is strength for me. Because I get strength when I get cheers on the stage.

— Onew

I just go out and sing my songs. I don't put on elaborate stage shows with ridiculous fancy dress.

— Amy Macdonald

For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the…

— Katherine Jenkins

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have…

— Joel Kinnaman

Maybe it's more stressful to be on stage because you constantly have to keep revisiting it as opposed to being like, 'Well,…

— Mike Faist

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

— Holly Near

I love having the opportunity to perform, and I hate not being given the opportunity to perform.

— Christie Laing

When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.

— Viola Davis

I'd love to do an acoustic album alright, just on stage. That'd be nice.

— Damien Dempsey

I always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I'm on stage on time.

— Conor Maynard

I knew well in advance even before I stepped on the stage for my first event that I was going to lose.

— Svetlana Khorkina

Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.

— Kumi Naidoo